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Rosie's Theater Kids: STUDENTS ON STRIKE
Oct 1 2 PM - 4 PM
$10.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St. Marks Place 212-388-0388
An Original musical by Rosie’s Theater Kids, conceived and directed by: Jeff Statile... The story of Moton High School whose students walked out of their school and into history... To protest the overcrowded and inferior facilities at their Virginia school, 16-year-old Barbara Johns organized and led a two-week strike, during which students refused to attend classes. The students called upon lawyers from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) , to help them in their struggle for equal educational opportunities. Their case landed in the Supreme Court as part of Brown v. Board of Education, which declared segregation in public education unconstitutional...
Rosie’s Theater Kids (RTKids) began in 2003 and has since touched over 60,000 New York students with their free arts-in-education programs. They serve the East Village and Lower East Side communities in classrooms at
PS 19, PS 64, PS 34, PS 20, PS 142, PS 130, PS 110, & PS 15.
More Information: http://www.rosiestheaterkids.org
Riki Colon's DANCING IN THE STREETS
Oct 1 8 PM - 10 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place
Two worlds collide when a Latino family breaks tradition and moves to the Hassidic side of Delancey Street. In an effort to protect his sexually ambivalent young son, Gio, Ricardo Alberto Barrone chooses to move his family into Murrary Eskowitz's building on the OTHER side of Delancey. The play takes you on a journey through the Hasidic and Latino communities of the Lower East Side and spotlights the friendship of two brave children navigating family and religious boundaries... Starring: Michael Flair, Isah Shoshan,Stephanie Guzman, Saarah Medrano, Billy Pena, John Mitchell, Amanda Rivera, Ana Diaz, & Victoria Adesoba,.. Film Direction & Production: Amy Leonard, Production/Set Design: Xavier Figueroa, Written & directed by the maestro himself-- Riki Colon.
Out Of the Vaults: KESTUTIS NAKAS, DON ARRINGTON, MARNI RICE, JOHN JESURUN, & OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL PMS
Oct 2 8 PM - 10:30 PM
$20.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
East Village performance artists Kestutis Nakas, Don Arrington, Marni Rice, John Jesurun, & Our Lady Of Perpetual PMS (Daniella De La Bocca) perform distinctive works both new and old... Kestutis Nakas is a writer, performer, director, and teacher whose work has been presented at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Yale Rep, La Mama, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, among many other venues. Performance works and plays include Railroad Backward, The Andrew Carnegie Story, and the critically acclaimed tragi-farce cycle: When Lithuania Ruled The World. In the 1980's, he was active in New York's East Village performance scene and was Artistic Director of Gates of Dawn... His 1983 prodiuction of William Shakespeare's TITUS ANDRONICUS has already achieved legendary status....DON ARRINGTON has been a part of the East Village theatrical scene since 1970, when he was a member of Will Leach and John Braswell's ETC Company of (Ellen Stewart's) LaMaMa. He has written and produced numerous musical theatre pieces at La MaMa and Theatre for the New City and has toured the planet as company manger for international dance companies...
JOHN JESURUN is writer, director and multi-media artist, based in a New York. A former assistant producer of THE DICK CAVETT SHOW, his work CHANG IN A VOID MOON is a live serial running since 1983, originally at the Pyramid Club in the East Village, and now at other venues worldwide... Jesurun's work has long been distinguished by his use of film and video to destabilize the audience's sense of reality... MARNI RICE is a chanteuse, theater artist & accordion player whose repertoire includes vintage French Chansons, Euro Art songs and original music... OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL PMS- Is co-founder of GLOB (Gorgeous Ladies Of Blood Wrestling) and spoken word artist.
Abingdon Theatre Company Presents: LOST ON THE NATCHEZ TRACE by JAN BUTTRAM
Oct 3 7 PM - 9 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place
Set 444 miles of thigh-deep swampland, forest, and far from home, LOST ON THE NATCHEZ TRACE brings us the story of Malcolm Jeters, a slave auctioneer, who falls off his mule. Sickly, injured, and without food or water, his only hope arrives when Tom, a mysterious runaway slave, appears. A desperate negotiation ensues as Malcolm and Tom realize they are each other's only chance for survival. LOST ON THE NATCHEZ TRACE is written by Abingdon Theatre Company's Artistic Director Jan Buttram, writer of PHANTOM KILLER, and directed by Kate Bushmann at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre.
21st Century Vaudeville: THE ALIEN COMIC, BRUCE BENDERSON, JOJO DE LA LOUCHE, & SHECKY BEAGLEMAN
Oct 5 8 PM - 10 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place
Tonight's line-up propels the captivating allure of of an eclectic traditional vaudeville revue into a new century using Spoken Word (the keystone of 19th Century Chautauqua Movement), sight-gags, physicality, and eye-catching props (from the seminal early 20th Century stage) and thought-provoking comedy (a controversial element added in the mid-to- late Twentieth Century), and ratchets it all up quite a few notches to give us a glimpse of what the future holds in store for audiences who come in search of entertainment and enlightenment...
THE ALIEN COMIC AKA Tom Murrin has had a career in performance that's spanned four decades. Besides curating and performing the legendary Full Moon Shows, and THE TALKING SHOW:THE MAGICAL, RIDICULOUS JOURNEY OF THE ALIEN COMIC, Murrin has appeared alongside such luminaries as Johanna Went, and the late Ethyl Eichelberger, Over the years, he has received countless awards for the excellence of his work and in 2008, P.S. 122 honored him at their annual Spring Gala... BRUCE BENDERSON IS a novelist, essayist, journalist and translator both in Europe and the US. His THE ROMANIAN: STORY OF AN OBSESSION (Tarcher/Penguin 2006)) won France's prestigious PRIX DE FLORE. His novel USER (1994) is a lyrical descent into the world of junkies and male hustlers; he is also the author of James Bidgood (Taschen, 1999), about the maker of the cult film Pink Narcissus, and, though it is quite far away from his usual subject matter, has written the autobiography of Céline Dion, and has recently completed TRANSHUMAIN, a book about the future interfacing of biology and technology. Benderson has also worked closely with two Hollywood personalities, Leslie Caron, for her 2010 memoir THANK HEAVEN and Raquel Welch, for her book RAQUEL: BEYOND THE CLEAVAGE, which became a New York Times bestseller in 2010.... JOJO DE LA LOUCHE is an interdisciplinary performing artist trained in vocal performance and the Lecoq pedagogy of devised physical theater, studying wth Lecoq master Dody DiSanto, as well as the late Marcel Marceau. He has performed extensively in New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. at venues as diverse as Galapagos, Dixon Place, the National Theatre, & the Corcoran Gallery Of Art, to name a few. His performance experience encompasses the worlds of theater, dance, cabaret and burlesque; his métier, both visually and aurally stunning. He is performingtonight with David Aaron Berger, Music Director/drums, and
Picardy Third on piano... SHECKY BEAGLEMAN has been nominated for two Manhattan Association Of Cabaret Awards for outstanding female comedian. She wrote for and was a regular cast member on the USA Network's UP ALL NIGHT. In 2010, Beagleman's rendition of her famous CRACK DANCE brought down the house and convinced us to invite her back again this year to WOW us one more time!
Film: Lech Kowalkski's STORY OF A JUNKIE & Richard Kern's ZOMBIE HYPE
Oct 7 10:30 PM - Midnite
$10.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place
From Wikipedia:
STORY OF A JUNKIE is a 1987 drama film directed by Lech Kowalski and starring John Spaceley. Distributed by Troma Entertainment. Filmed in documentary-style, the film follows the character of Gringo, a young man looking for fortune in New York, only to fall into heroin addiction.
The movie has amassed quite a reputation in certain circles for its depictions of hard drug usage in New York City's East Village area. Many of the cast members, including leading man John Spaceley, are actual junkies. The numerous shooting-up sequences are reportedly entirely real, as are many of the drug dens and their denizens. Perhaps even more notable than the cinema verite structure is the almost total lack of moralizing on the part of the producers or its characters.
Troma Entertainment hails STORY OF A JUNKIE as one of the company's best films; it's one of the most well-known outside of the films directed by Troma founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz.
Tonight, we'll be showing a new, better quality print of this legendary underground EV epic...
Also on the bill: Richard Kern's ZOMBIE HYPE... If you bought tickets for Jennifer Blowdryer's 86'd, these screenings are included in the ticket price.
More Information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088179/
JENNIFER BLOWDRYER PRESENTS: 86'd
Oct 7 8 PM - Midnight
$10.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Jennifer Blowdryer Presents 86'd with Robert Prichard, Frankie Clinton, Joey Gay from Last Comic Standing,.,. Fireside 86ed chat with: LES Jules, Remick-- Ask a black person-- Bernice, Bill Livsey, and Leslie Lowe... Premiering footage of: Moonshine, Rev Billy, LES Jules, August Bleed, P Raw, and Angry Bob, a recurring character on HBO's Bored to Death
Followed at !0:30 PM (& included in the ticket price) by Lech Kowalski's STORY OF A JUNKIE a new, better quality print of this legendary underground EV Epic. Introduced by the Director.
More Information: http://www.jenniferblowdryer.com/
THE TWEED FRACTURED CLASSICKS SERIES presents: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE STARRING PENNY ARCADE & BRENDA BERGMAN
Oct 8 8 PM - 10 PM
$20.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
: THE TWEED FRACTURED CLASSICKS SERIES presents staged readings of classic American plays and films. The series has presented some of downtown’s most astonishing performers – as well as some bona fide celebrities, in great works by great playwrights and filmakers...
Recipe: Take one crazy old ex child vaudeville hoofer, add crippled has been starlet sister, one busy body neighbor and a dash of dead maid. Drizzle in one homosexual vocal coach. Toss lightly. Fold in Brenda Bergman , Penny Arcade, Sweetie, Brini Maxwell, and Steve Hayes. Mix well. Spread out evenly on Theater 80 St Marks stage. Bake for 90 minutes, pausing occasionally for laughter. Delicious! But don't over do it.
Cast: Penny Arcade, Brenda Bergman, Sweetie, Steven Hayes, Brini Maxwell, Rosa Curry, Wesleigh Urish, Producers: TWEED TheaterWorks, Writers: Grady Hendrix, Creative and Design: Directed by Kevin Malony
THE TWEED FRACTURED CLASSICKS SERIES presents: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE STARRING PENNY ARCADE & BRENDA BERGMAN
Oct 9 8 PM - 10 PM
$20.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
THE TWEED FRACTURED CLASSICKS SERIES presents staged readings of classic American plays and films. The series has presented some of downtown’s most astonishing performers – as well as some bona fide celebrities, in great works by great playwrights and filmakers... Recipe: Take one crazy old ex child vaudeville hoofer, add crippled has been starlet sister, one busy body neighbor and a dash of dead maid. Drizzle in one homosexual vocal coach. Toss lightly. Fold in Brenda Bergman , Penny Arcade, Sweetie, Brini Maxwell, and Steve Hayes. Mix well. Spread out evenly on Theater 80 St Marks stage. Bake for 90 minutes, pausing occasionally for laughter. Delicious! But don't over do it... Cast: Annika Jennie Sheridan, David Ilku, Wesleigh Urish, Brini Maxwell, Penny Arcade, Brenda Bergman, Sweetie, Steve Hayes, Zecca Esquibel, Producers: TWEED TheaterWorks, Writers: Grady Hendrix, Directed by Kevin Malony, Production Stage Manager : Alexandra Bramwell, Production Design by Claire Moodey & Costumes by Nata Traub.
DOWNWARD FACING DEBBIE: a new comedy by David Caudle
Oct 10 8 PM - 10 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
DOWNWARD FACING DEBBIE by David Caudle... Directed by Josh Hecht... Cast: Ali Ahn, Brennan Brown, Mike Doyle, Keira Naughton, Felice Neals and TBA...
Ditched at the altar, disoriented Debbie dives headlong into yoga to deal with her damage. Luck guides her to an exclusive class at a tony Hamptons studio led by two gorgeous, wise, powerful women. After healing physically and emotionally beyond her dreams, Debbie spots cracks in the studio's stunning facade of unity. If her spiritual doctors cannot heal themselves, will their latest patient go into remission forever?
DEBBIE was developed in the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages.
TWEED TheaterWorks presents UNITARD
Oct 11 8 PM - 10 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
TWEED TheaterWorks presents a night of amazingly un-PC stuff: The Unitards (Mike Albo, Nora Burns and David Ilku) are back and tardier than ever with their brand new line-up of outrageous, biting, farcical sketches and monologues. Making mockery of the mundane and fools of the fabulous, the Unitards will have you spitting up your cocktail.The evening's special guests are Bradford Scobie, Mark McCombs and Billy Hough.
TWEED Presents: REMEMBER! THE SONGS OF HARRY NILSSON
Oct 12 8 PM - 10 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Harry Nilsson was arguably the most respected singer, songwriter, and record maker of the '70s. His prolific career spanned 30 years and included chart-topping pop songs, blockbuster soundtracks and a fistful of hit rock and folk singles. He’s best remembered for the theme song from Midnight Cowboy, EVERYBODY'S TALKING ,(a song he didn’t write!). He wrote the score for animated 70’s pop parable The Point which included the hit singleME AND MY ARROW, the widely-covered Calypso number COCONUT, the soundtrack for Robert Altman’s Popeye , and his music has been heard everywhere, from THE MUPPET SHOW to RESERVOIR DOGS.
Featuring: The Major Toms...
Starring: Lauren Flanigan, Michael Cavadias, Poor Baby Bree, M Lamar, Brenda Bergman & The Bodacious TaTas, Edgar Oliver, Claywoman, Jay Rogers, David Ilku, Carol Lipnik, Body Collider Dance, Liza Colby, Greta Gertler, Annie Golden, Aaron Morishita, Janine Nichols, Lee Feldman, Amy Allison, Flotilla De Barge, Tish & Snooky, Russell Wolinsky, Mamie Minch, Little Annie, Lorraine Leckie, and MORE!!!!
Producers: Kevin Malony, Writers: Harry Nilsson, Creative: Carol Lipnik, curator; Charly Roth music director.
FILM: Paul Tschinkel's NAN GOLDIN, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, GRAFFITI/POST-GRAFFITI
Oct 13 8 PM - 9:30 PM
$10.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Paul Tschinkel's ART/NEW YORK surveyed the burgeoning East Village Art Scene in the Late 1970's and 80's. 3 half hour programs feature rarely-seen protraits of downtown legends Nan Goldin, Jean-Michel Baquiat and graffiti greats Keith Haring, Feb5 Freddy, Crash, Lady Pink and more... The filmmaker will be on hand to introduce his films and answer questions... NAN GOLDIN - In My Life (c) 1997, Running Time 28 minutes... Paul Tschinkel's Interview with the Artist In Her13th St Studio. This program features the work of one of the major photographers of the latter part of the 20th Century. Seen is Goldin's compelling mid-career retrospective at The Whitney Museum of American Art which featured work culled from a period spanning more than 25 years of taking pictures. Organized by Whitney curator ELIZABETH SUSSMAN and selected by NAN GOLDIN and her life long friend and colleague DAVID ARMSTRONG, the exhibition tells a moving tale of Nan Goldin's life. Included are interviews with NAN GOLDIN and MARVIN HEIFERMAN, curator and a director of Lookout in New York...JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT... running time: 34 minutes... This program contains a rare interview with the mercurial painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat, conducted in 1981 in his studio on Crosby Street, in SoHo. Basquiat, an internationally renowned artist, as well as the enfant terrible of the 1980's art scene, died tragically in 1988 at the age of 28. Both during his brief life and since his untimely death, stories and legends abound which chronicle his meteoric rise to art world stardom. In 1996 Basquiat's life was fictionalized in the film entitled BASQUIAT, directed by fellow artist Julian Schnabel. In this ART/new york program, the 21 year old Basquiat is interviewed by art historian/curator Marc H. Miller, PhD... Already a well known art world figure, Basquiat's fondness for high jinks as well as his exuberant spirit are captured as he describes his working process and comments upon his art
world persona... GRAFFITI/POST-GRAFFITI... Runing Time: 28 minutes... This tape explores the role of Graffiti Art in New York galleries. Taped are exhibitions at the Sidney Janis Gallery, the Fashion Moda Art Space in the
South Bronx and the Fun Gallery in the East Village. Included are interviews with LADY PINK, CRASH, KEITH HARING, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, FAB5 FREDDY and others.
Pins and Needles - A Topical Revue by Harold Rome (1937)
Oct 14 8 PM - 10 PM
$20.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Downtown Music Productions presents A Lower East Production of the 1937 Topical Musical Revue: Pins and Needles by Harold Rome
Musical Director: Mimi Stern-Wolfe. Stage Direction: Eleanor Reissa.
Featuring: Laura Wolfe, Darcy Dunn, Jeannine Otis, Mark Singer, Charles Baran, Michael Schilke, Paul Malamphy
As history repeats itself, so do revivals of historically relevant theatrical attractions .
With it's critically acclaimed score and lyrics, PINS AND NEEDLES was and is a unique call for social justice and fair equity. Originally produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and performed entirely by union workers who diligently rehearsed after their day jobs ended, the original cast, made up of cutters, basters and sewing machine operators, appeared in skits spoofing everything from Fascist European dictators to bigots in the DAR.
PINS AND NEEDLES opened in 1937 at the Princess Theatre on 39th Street(which also happened to be their union hall) and broke all Broadway records--over 1100 performances-- running until 1941. The show's composer/lyricist, Harold Rome, would later go on to write FANNY, DESTRY RIDES AGAIN and I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE among others.
Rosie's Theater Kids: STUDENTS ON STRIKE
Oct 15 2 PM - 3 PM
$10.00
THEATRE 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
An Original musical by Rosie’s Theater Kids, conceived and directed by: Jeff Statile... The story of Moton High School whose students walked out of their school and into history... To protest the overcrowded and inferior facilities at their Virginia school, 16-year-old Barbara Johns organized and led a two-week strike, during which students refused to attend classes. The students called upon lawyers from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) , to help them in their struggle for equal educational opportunities. Their case landed in the Supreme Court as part of Brown v. Board of Education, which declared segregation in public education unconstitutional... Rosie’s Theater Kids (RTKids) began in 2003 and has since touched over 60,000 New York students with their free arts-in-education programs. They serve the East Village and Lower East Side communities in classrooms at PS 19, PS 64, PS 34, PS 20, PS 142, PS 130, PS 110, & PS 15.
More Information: http://www.rosiestheaterkids.org
THE QUANTUM EYE
Oct 15 5 PM - 6:30 PM
$VARIES
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 347-294-0092
The Quantum Eye is Sam Eaton's entertaining and fascinating exploration of mentalism, magic, perception and deception, where extraordinary ability and gentle humor blend with the audience to make for a different performance every time. Join Sam on a journey past the limits of possibility in a show you will never forget.
More Information: http://www.thequantumeye.com
Pins and Needles - A Topical Revue by Harold Rome (1937)
Oct 15 8 PM - 10 PM
$20.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Downtown Music Productions presents A Lower East Production of the 1937 Topical Musical Revue: Pins and Needles by Harold Rome
Musical Director: Mimi Stern-Wolfe. Stage Direction: Eleanor Reissa.
Featuring: Laura Wolfe, Darcy Dunn, Jeannine Otis, Mark Singer, Charles Baran, Michael Schilke, Paul Malamphy
As history repeats itself, so do revivals of historically relevant theatrical attractions .
With it's critically acclaimed score and lyrics, PINS AND NEEDLES was and is a unique call for social justice and fair equity. Originally produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and performed entirely by union workers who diligently rehearsed after their day jobs ended, the original cast, made up of cutters, basters and sewing machine operators, appeared in skits spoofing everything from Fascist European dictators to bigots in the DAR.
PINS AND NEEDLES opened in 1937 at the Princess Theatre on 39th Street(which also happened to be their union hall) and broke all Broadway records--over 1100 performances-- running until 1941. The show's composer/lyricist, Harold Rome, would later go on to write FANNY, DESTRY RIDES AGAIN and I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE among others.
Greg Drozdek's SONGS FROM THE OLD PARISH
Oct 16 2 PM - 4 PM
$10.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Written and Directed by Greg Drozdek... 'Twelve stories, with music, about growing up and living in New York City... 'I have lived and worked here all my life. My father was a refugee from Yugoslavia who met my mother after she left the convent. New York raised me. The people, the streets, my priest and the nuns, the neighbors, they all helped me survive. The bar, the characters and crooks at the bar where my father drank, they helped raise me too. They taught me to love the music of the city, the music I have built my life around here, as a teacher and a writer, the songs that are New York, the songs from the old parish. ' Native son Greg Drozdek founded and ran The Stanton Street Settlement, a free after-school program for immigrant children from 1998 - 2008. Greg has also worked as an English Teacher and Assistant Principal at La Salle Academy.
Chris Rael's L.E.S. IS MORE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Oct 16 7:30 PM - 10 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
You may have been to young to catch SONIC YOUTH at CBGB or 3 TEENS KILL 4 at the Pyramid
but the East Village never sleeps and here's your chance to experience the next wave... Original Howl! music curator Chris Rael presents the L.E.S.IS MORE MUSIC FESTIVAL, an evening of sublime original local music spanning styles from American folk to Asian pop, all made right here in New York. This evening's acts are connected by overlapping players, showcasing the incomparable diversity of the ethnic and musical heritage of the East Village and the Lower East Side. INCLUDES Rael's own CHURCH OF BETTY,
THE M SHANGHAI STRING BAND, HAWKE & OWL. and DYER. The program will also feature a modest excerpt from RAEL's acclaimed ARABY, inspired by James Joyce's THE DUBLINERS..
More Information: http://www.chrisrael.com/
The Manhattan Theater Club Presents Greg Keller's DUTCH MASTERS
Oct 17 7 PM - 9 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
The Manhattan Theater Club Presents a Staged Reading...selected for inclusion in the festival by MTC Artistic Producer, Mandy Greenfield. Proceeds benefit HOWL! HELP, an emergency services assistance and health fund for East Village/Lower East Side Artists... In DUTCH MASTERS, a young white man and a young black man meet on a D train to the Bronx. They get to talking and end up spending the day together. It seems like a simple story. But it's 1992. Los Angeles is still smoldering. The Crown Heights riots are a recent memory. And
this chance encounter is about to lead these two apparent strangers into a head-on confrontation with the racial tensions threatening to tear the country apart. A piercingly insightful comedy-drama that
takes a frank and deeply human look at the problems of race in America.... Greg Keller's play THE YOUNG LEFT was produced by The Cherry Lane Theater in 2008. He is a 2009 Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow
at The Juilliard School and a recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize for playwriting. As an actor, his credits include THE SEAGULL at CSC with Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming. Keller holds an MFA in Acting from
NYU's Tisch School of the Arts... Tickets are $15 in advance, and $18 at the door.
More Information: http://www.mtc-nyc.org
SCRIBBLE: A Night of Funny 0ne Acts
Oct 18 8 PM - Midnight
$10.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
A staged reading of work from six NYU graduate playwrights curated by Claire Downs...
SIGHTING IN GRETNA... Written by: Todd Briscoe, Claire Downs, Evan Watkins, and Kate Weber
Starring: Todd Briscoe, Claire Downs, Evan Watkins, and Kate Weber...
A Florida panhandle town may or may have not had an alien sighting...
Run Time: About 30 minutes...
THANK YOU 10 (12 -13 min) Written By: Mara Wilson. Directed by: Andrew Neisler. Starring: Annie Dow and John Herman... Two young actors have a chance encounter backstage during a college production of A Midsummer Night's Dream... Before Act Three, Scene Two is over, both will die (...in the Shakespearean sense.)
LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS...10 min ... Written by and Starring: Kim Blanck, directed by Will Garrett Detlefsen, starring Ryann Weir, Alex Fast, Nathaniel Peart... A behind-the-painting look at Manet's Luncheon on the Grass.
SLIDESHOW... 10 min... Written by and Starring: Dan Moyer...A relationship told in vacation slides... 20 -25 min
THE FRIEDMAN-VARGASES... Written by: Emma Koenig and Andrew Farmer. Directed by: Max Reuben
Making their 11th annual appearance at James Polk Middle School... The Friedman-Vargases are a couple of free-spirited, fun-loving PhD's bent on teaching young adults some adoLESSONS about pYOUberty. And nothing, not even their totally amicable divorce, is going to stand in their way of doing so.
TEETH (15 min.)... Written and directed by Max Reuben. Starring: Keilly McQuaill, Mike Steinmetz, and Andrew Farmer... A receptionist at a dentist's office has to answer to her angry boss after a large, carnivorous dinosaur shows up in the waiting room with an appointment.
BOBBY THE MIDDLE-AGED CELEBRITY: Composed by and super-starring Bobby AKA Robert I. Rubinsky
Oct 19 8 PM - 10 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
THE NVR 2 L8 2 B Famous musical is back by popular demand...This is Bobby's journey to become famous, a brand, a household name. He has had many incarnations in this quest, almost getting to the top, then falling flat on his face. As the years fly by, the show touches on his upward and downward climbs, and with his inspiring self-help tapes, culminates with superstardom and his entree into the political arena... Musical Direction and Sarcasm by Mr. Spooch (AKA Larry Spivack)
!BADASS! BURLESQUE: Drama Queens Of the Silver Screen
Oct 20 10 PM - midnight
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place
!BadAss! Burlesque presents: a devastatingly dramatic series of events depicted with silver screen divas decadently displayed with a bump and a grind... Chi Chi Valenti hosts an opulent night of Hollywood gone !BadAss!...Featuring: Velocity Chyaldd, Cassandra Rosebeetle, Stormy Leather, Deity Delgado, Apathy Angel,
Go-G- Harder, Honi Harlow, Bunny Love, Main Attraction and many more, honoring such icons as: Marlene Deitrich, Theda Bara, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Josephine Baker, Audrey Hepburn & Mae West.
More Information: http://www.BadAssBurlesque.com
CHELSEA MÄDCHEN Starring Tammy Faye Starlight
Oct 20 7 PM - 9 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Tammy Faye Starlite portrays Nico, the glamorously decadent Velvet Underground chanteuse, née Christa Paffgen, in Chelsea Mädchen Inspired by current economic catastrophes of the same sort that provoked the climate of fear that begat the Third Reich, Tammy Faye Starlight forswears her country persona for an evening of song performances -- Und Gespräch -- in a dark, Weimar-cum Warhol Kabaret Konzert directed by Michael Schiralli.
SAN FRANCISCO'S THRILL PEDDLERS PRESENT... VICE PALACE: The Cockettes' Last Musical
Oct 21 11 PM - 1 AM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Straight from San Francisco, The Thrillpeddlers present a concert version of their smash hit revival, VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical on Friday & Saturday, October 21 & 22 as part of the 2011 HOWL! Festival, at Theater 80. Selections from the show can be seen earlier in the week at the New York Library for the Performing Arts on Monday, October 17, as part of The Martin Worman Papers - which takes an in-depth look into the life and career Mr. Worman - actor, playwright, lyricist, director, female impersonator, activist and academic... Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”, VICE PALACE was written by Martin Worman & Scrumbly Koldewyn in 1972 as a vehicle for Divine and actress Mink Stole (best known as stars of cult-director John Waters’ films), and The Cockettes. VICE PALACE follows Divina, (Leigh Crow), an eccentric and wealthy woman who spares no expense to keep her jet-set party guests entertained, while the villagers just beyond the walls of her lavish estate are ravaged by the plague. Each performance must top the next in this bizarre race to escape the one uninvited party guest – death! Originally produced as a “Nocturnal Dream Show” and performed at midnight at the old Palace Theatre in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco on Halloween weekend of 1972, VICE PALACE was the fabled and fabulous Cockettes’ final stage presentation... THE COCKETTES were a gender-bending theatrical troupe who not only originated many outrageous shows, but also exerted a profound influence on the culture of our times, from the phenomenon of midnight movies, to glitter rock stars and their outrageous fashions.... Thrillpeddlers new adaptation stylistically imparts --much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, and much of the bizarre!-- while also giving a nod to the early 1960s films of Frederico Fellini, specifically LA DOLCE VITA and JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. Directed by Russell Blackwood and staring drag king superstar Leigh Crow as Divina and composer, co-author and original Cockettes member Srumbly Koldewyn...
THE THRILLPEDDLERS (www.thrillpeddlers.com) have been performing their unique brand of horror and fetish theatre in San Francisco since 1991. Under the direction of Russell Blackwood, Thrillpeddlers are continuously engaged in translating, adapting and producing classic plays from the infamous repertoire of Le Théâtre du Grand Guignol and producing other works inspired by the Grand Guignol tradition. In 2008, Thrillpeddlers embraced another niche theatrical genre with the company’s annual Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival, Which have included Charles Busch’s THEODORA, SHE-BITCH OF BYZANTIUM, Charles Ludlam’s JACK IN THE BEANSTALK, and Link Martin and Scrumbly Koldewyn’s PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI (the Revivals’ 2009 offering which went on to a twenty-two month run in SF).
More Information: http://thrillpeddlers.com/
Bill Manville's SALOON SOCIETY
Oct 21 7 PM - 9 PM
$10.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
SALOON SOCIETY is a stage version of Bill Manville's brilliant VILLAGE VOICE column of the late 1950's, capturing the drinking days and nights of the bar crowd of the Beat era. Set to a jazz score, the play takes us to the San Remo, where the lost-and-found souls Manville calls the -intellectuals, horned-rimmed men, poets, dancers, the beat and the bearded and their black-stockinged women, acrobats, tenors, sexual engineers, Spanish waiters, bust-ups and run-aways- act out their lives in vivid poetic fashion. The NY TIMES called SALOON SOCIETY "a downtown bromide, clever, the essence of bitter-sweet, and studded with little gems of truth.” With J. Eric Cook, Dana Watkins, Nalina Mann, David Arthur Bachrach, Tony Torn, Frances Uku, Alex Bilu, Carmit Levite, and Dan Illian. Direction and stage adaption by Jim Milton, with assistance by Joan Meltzer. Immediately after the show, there will be a talk-back led by noted biographer, Patricia Bosworth.
Rosie's Theater Kids: STUDENTS ON STRIKE
Oct 22 1 PM - 2PM
$5.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
An Original musical by Rosie’s Theater Kids, conceived and directed by: Jeff Statile... The story of Moton High School whose students walked out of their school and into history... To protest the overcrowded and inferior facilities at their Virginia school, 16-year-old Barbara Johns organized and led a two-week strike, during which students refused to attend classes. The students called upon lawyers from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) , to help them in their struggle for equal educational opportunities. Their case landed in the Supreme Court as part of Brown v. Board of Education, which declared segregation in public education unconstitutional... Rosie’s Theater Kids (RTKids) began in 2003 and has since touched over 60,000 New York students with their free arts-in-education programs. They serve the East Village and Lower East Side communities in classrooms at PS 19, PS 64, PS 34, PS 20, PS 142, PS 130, PS 110, & PS 15.
More Information: http://www.rosiestheaterkids.org
SAN FRANCISCO'S THRILL PEDDLERS PRESENT... VICE PALACE: The Cockettes' Last Musical
Oct 22 11 PM - 1 AM
$15.00
THEATRE 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Straight from San Francisco, The Thrillpeddlers present a concert version of their smash hit revival, VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical on Friday & Saturday, October 21 & 22 as part of the 2011 HOWL! Festival, at Theater 80. Selections from the show can be seen earlier in the week at the New York Library for the Performing Arts on Monday, October 17, as part of The Martin Worman Papers - which takes an in-depth look into the life and career Mr. Worman - actor, playwright, lyricist, director, female impersonator, activist and academic... Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”, VICE PALACE was written by Martin Worman & Scrumbly Koldewyn in 1972 as a vehicle for Divine and actress Mink Stole (best known as stars of cult-director John Waters’ films), and The Cockettes. VICE PALACE follows Divina, (Leigh Crow), an eccentric and wealthy woman who spares no expense to keep her jet-set party guests entertained, while the villagers just beyond the walls of her lavish estate are ravaged by the plague. Each performance must top the next in this bizarre race to escape the one uninvited party guest – death! Originally produced as a “Nocturnal Dream Show” and performed at midnight at the old Palace Theatre in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco on Halloween weekend of 1972, VICE PALACE was the fabled and fabulous Cockettes’ final stage presentation... THE COCKETTES were a gender-bending theatrical troupe who not only originated many outrageous shows, but also exerted a profound influence on the culture of our times, from the phenomenon of midnight movies, to glitter rock stars and their outrageous fashions.... Thrillpeddlers new adaptation stylistically imparts --much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, and much of the bizarre!-- while also giving a nod to the early 1960s films of Frederico Fellini, specifically LA DOLCE VITA and JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. Directed by Russell Blackwood and staring drag king superstar Leigh Crow as Divina and composer, co-author and original Cockettes member Srumbly Koldewyn... THE THRILLPEDDLERS (www.thrillpeddlers.com) have been performing their unique brand of horror and fetish theatre in San Francisco since 1991. Under the direction of Russell Blackwood, Thrillpeddlers are continuously engaged in translating, adapting and producing classic plays from the infamous repertoire of Le Théâtre du Grand Guignol and producing other works inspired by the Grand Guignol tradition. In 2008, Thrillpeddlers embraced another niche theatrical genre with the company’s annual Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival, Which have included Charles Busch’s THEODORA, SHE-BITCH OF BYZANTIUM, Charles Ludlam’s JACK IN THE BEANSTALK, and Link Martin and Scrumbly Koldewyn’s PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI (the Revivals’ 2009 offering which went on to a twenty-two month run in SF).
More Information: http://thrillpeddlers.com
THE QUANTUM EYE
Oct 22 5 PM - 6:30 PM
$VARIES
THEATRE 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
The Quantum Eye is Sam Eaton's entertaining and fascinating exploration of mentalism, magic, perception and deception, where extraordinary ability and gentle humor blend with the audience to make for a different performance every time. Join Sam on a journey past the limits of possibility in a show you will never forget.
More Information: http://www.thequantumeye.com
Jim Rado's IN THE DARK THEATER Presents SUN (Audio Movie), Book and Lyrics: James Rado and Gerome Ragni, Music by Steve Margoshes
Oct 22 8 PM - 10:10 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Introduced by James Rado... A comic-Orwellian epic struggle between the nuclear gods & the natural gods, a musical extravaganza,.. SUN (Audio Movie) is a unique listening experience to a recording from the Theatrical Laboratory of James Rado. Book & Lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, Music by Steve Margoshes...
The only musical other than HAIR written by the talented Rado/Ragni team, SUN (Audio Movie) breaks
all stage tradition with a song-filled production presented completely in the dark. Addressing themes of good vs. evil, distress and unrest, Rado and Ragni use the icons, myths and fables of humanity's past, present and future. The year is 1984 futuristic. The score, magical, majestic, comedic... Warning: No moving around. Stay in your seats. Sit in the dark. You will be enlightened.
POETS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND PEACE... Group Reading plus special musical guests THE MAST (featuring Haale Gafori and Matt Kilmer)
Oct 23 1 PM - 4 PM
$5.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
This afternoon program will feature poets from the war region, including emerging Afghan-American writers Sahar Muradi, and Zohra Saed. It will also include additional poets, musicians, and speakers to be announced, and a special group performance of Allen Ginsberg’s famous anti-nuclear power poem, “Plutonian Ode.” This event is being produced by a recently created NYC-based group, Poets for Renewable Energy and Peace (PREP), which hopes to inspire new and growing activism against war and nuclear energy... Group Reading of Allen Ginsberg’s renowned anti-nuclear energy poem, PLUTONIAN ODE... Chris Brandt, Sara Goudarzi, David Henderson, Eliot Katz, Papoleto Melendez, Yusuf Misdaq, Sahar Muradi, Bob Rosenthal, Zohra Saed, Tahani Salah, Jackie Sheeler, and Anne Waldman... ALSO FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS: The Mast (featuring Haale Gafori and Matt Kilmer). Mesmerizing young Brooklyn duo that the critics have been raving about... “Compelling…dreamy and energetic…" and "Powerfully hypnotic…" are just some of the superlatives written about their lush, tribal soundscapes.
More Information: http://www.themastmusic.com
Six Spooky Riffs Off the Work Of the NY Beat Poets: HOWL! O'WEEN (W)RITES
Oct 23 8 PM - 10:30 PM
$20.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
HOSTED BY AMY STILLER... Six spooky riffs off the work of the NY Beat Poets... Authors include alumni of Primary stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group: Courtney Baron, David Caudle & Bekah Brunstetter, along with actress/playwright Kellie Overbey and others. Directors include Primary Stages' Associate Artistic Director Michelle Bossyactress/director Carrie Preston (HBO's True Blood), and Abigail Zealey Bess of Ensemble Studio Theatre...
Poems used as inspiration include Frank O'Hara's LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED, and the Ginsburg/Kerouac/Cassady collaboration, PULL MY DAISY.
The Manhattan Theater Club presents Laura Marks' BETHANY
Oct 24 7 PM - 9 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
The Manhattan Theater Club Presents a Staged Reading...selected for inclusion in the festival by MTC Artistic Producer, Mandy Greenfield. Proceeds benefit HOWL! HELP, an emergency services assistance and health fund for East Village/Lower East Side Artists... In BETHANY, when the going gets tough, the tough get going, and the
going has gotten very tough indeed for Crystal. Her job is in jeopardy. Her house has been repossessed. Worst of all, her daughter has been taken by social services. It's time for Crystal to get going. But in her effort to get her daughter back and put her life on the right track, Crystal is forced to question just how far she's willing
to go to survive.... Laura Marks is a student in Juilliard's Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting program and a member of the Public Theater's 2010 Emerging Writers Group. BETHANY was a winner of the SheWrites competition and received prior readings with Steppenwolf's First Look Festival, Reverie Productions, APAC, Partial Comfort and Synchronicity Theatre in Atlanta. Marks also received the 2011 Leah Ryan's Fund of Emerging Women Writers award for BETHANY... Tickets are $15 in advance, and $18 at the door.
More Information: http://www.mtc-nyc.org
NO APOLOGIES: New Music From the Lower East Side
Oct 25 8 PM - 11 PM
$10.00
THeatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Transgendered Jesus...Juggernut...The Love Butchers... The Blowdryers... Transgendered Jesus is the multi media punk art band who was founded by the husband and wife art duo: Anne Hanavan and Paul Korzinski in 2010. The have played along side Laurie Anderson, Peaches and Marina Abramovic. Transgendered Jesus uses a combination of performance art, sculpture, music and multi layered video projections to release their pent up rage at the current start of world affairs and the hypocrisy of the United States penal system. Anne Hanavan vocal and art director... Paul Korzinski sax and props... Texas Clamp drums... Ian Wilson guitar... Sebastian Correa aka Sprocket Thunderrod... Giorgio back up vocals... Frank Hanavan stage manager and art installer...
Joe Birdsong and Charles Lawrence spiritual leaders... Dolman installation by RAFAEL SANCHEZ & KATHLEEN WHITE
STEVE COHEN: A One-Act Comedy By MICHAEL W. SMALL and THE WHITE WOLF: A Shadow-Play by Andrew Benincasa
Oct 26 7 PM - 8 PM
$10.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
There's no greater torture than acquiring the one thing you always wanted.... With a small golden parachute from a former employer, I set out to purchase the one thing I had wanted for 40 years-- excellent stereo speakers. So began a Dantean descent into suffering, regret, and financial disaster... Enter Steve Cohen, the only person on earth who knew exactly what should happen next... NOTE: If you are Steve Cohen and can produce a driver's license to prove it, you can keep your money in your pocket. Show up at the box office 30 minutes early. All Steve Cohens get in free tonight... PLUS-- THE WHITE WOLF: A 15 Minute Shadow-Play by Andrew Benincasa & Boat-Bird Theater. WHITE WOLF is a folkloric tale about a city girl with secret passions and deep, dark desires. BOAT-BIRD THEATER has been performing shadow puppet shows around New York City for several years. Their tales are drawn from both ancient and modern sources. From myths, from the news, and from the possibly unethical gossip of your therapists.
CYCLONE SEASON by Robert I Rubinsky
Oct 26 8 PM - 10 PM
$15.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
A Staged Reading By Robert I. Rubinsky... A darkly human comedy starring Helen Hanft, and David Wohl and others. Directed by Tom Aulino... One can't see, one can't hear and both can barely walk, but Dottie and Sam are perfectly happy by the Cyclone in their Coney Island apartment where they support their disheveled middle-aged live-in son. Enter their successful big-city daughter and life roller coasts out of control. Welcome to Cyclone Season, the only storm in life we will all have to face one day, like it or not.
In Peace & War, 3 TEENS KILL 4 and THE WHITE WOLF: A Shadow-Play by Andrew Benincasa
Oct 27 8 PM - 10 PM
$20.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Post-punk EV/LES legends 3 Teens Kill 4 (whose lineup also included the late artist David Wojnarowicz) present a multi-media exploration into their music including film and video, animation, live performance by the band (multi-instrumentalists Brian Butterick, Julie Hair, Jesse Hultberg, Doug Bressler and drummer/percussionist Bill Gerstel) with special guests including choreography by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Yvonne Meier, with Ben van Buren and Emily Wexler, also featuring Eliza Upton-Green, additional choreography by Martha Tormay; Joe Jagos, Animation by Sarah Cruickshank, an appearance by Antony (of Antony & the Johnsons) and others... PLUS-- THE WHITE WOLF: A 15 Minute Shadow-Play by Andrew Benincasa & Boat-Bird Theater. WHITE WOLF is a folkloric tale about a city girl with secret passions and deep, dark desires. BOAT-BIRD THEATER has been performing shadow puppet shows around New York City for several years. Their tales are drawn from both ancient and modern sources. From myths, from the news, and from the possibly unethical gossip of your therapists.
FILM: Paul Tschinkel in Association With Art/New York Presents ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
Oct 28 10 PM - 11:10 PM
$10.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Running Time: 79 min... This documentary looks at the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe, a world
renowned and controversial photographer, who died of AIDS in 1989. It explores his photography, his relationship to the downtown New York art world, and the gay S & M club scene prevalent in the 1970s & 80s. His infamously explicit pictures of the New York's Gay leather underground were considered groundbreaking and made him a cause celebré. Mapplethorpe's portraits, flowers, erotic subject matter and artistic presentation, elevated the photograph to serious art, worthy of exhibition in galleries and museums. In this documentary we see a 1983 interview with the youthful and mythic Robert Mapplethorpe. In his downtown loft, he talks about his ideas, inspiration, and the highly charged subject matter depicted in his work. Included are interviews with Jack Walls, Mapplethorpe's partner; artist Brice Marden; Holly Solomon, his first dealer; his father, Harry Mapplethorpe; and Father Stack, his priest in Floral Park, Long Island. Also commenting are curator Richard Marshall, brother Edward Mapplethorpe, photographer Gilles Larrain, lawyer Michael Ward Stout, artist Louise Bourgeois, and biographer Patricia Morrisroe... Q&A to follow.
In Peace & War, 3 TEENS KILL 4 and THE WHITE WOLF: A Shadow-Play by Andrew Benincasa
Oct 28 8 PM - 10 PM
$20.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Post-punk EV/LES legends 3 Teens Kill 4 (whose lineup also included the late artist David Wojnarowicz) present a multi-media exploration into their music including film and video, animation, live performance by the band (multi-instrumentalists Brian Butterick, Julie Hair, Jesse Hultberg, Doug Bressler and drummer/percussionist Bill Gerstel) with special guests including choreography by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Yvonne Meier, with Ben van Buren and Emily Wexler, also featuring Eliza Upton-Green, additional choreography by Martha Tormay; Joe Jagos, Animation by Sarah Cruickshank, an appearance by Antony (of Antony & the Johnsons) and others... PLUS-- THE WHITE WOLF: A 15 Minute Shadow-Play by Andrew Benincasa & Boat-Bird Theater. WHITE WOLF is a folkloric tale about a city girl with secret passions and deep, dark desires. BOAT-BIRD THEATER has been performing shadow puppet shows around New York City for several years. Their tales are drawn from both ancient and modern sources. From myths, from the news, and from the possibly unethical gossip of your therapists.
Rosie's Theater Kids: STUDENTS ON STRIKE
Oct 29 1 PM - 2 PM
$10.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
.An Original musical by Rosie’s Theater Kids, conceived and directed by: Jeff Statile... The story of Moton High School whose students walked out of their school and into history... To protest the overcrowded and inferior facilities at their Virginia school, 16-year-old Barbara Johns organized and led a two-week strike, during which students refused to attend classes. The students called upon lawyers from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) , to help them in their struggle for equal educational opportunities. Their case landed in the Supreme Court as part of Brown v. Board of Education, which declared segregation in public education unconstitutional... Rosie’s Theater Kids (RTKids) began in 2003 and has since touched over 60,000 New York students with their free arts-in-education programs. They serve the East Village and Lower East Side communities in classrooms at PS 19, PS 64, PS 34, PS 20, PS 142, PS 130, PS 110, & PS 15.
More Information: http://www.rosiestheaterkids.org
THE QUANTUM EYE
Oct 29 5 PM - 6:30 PM
$Varies
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
The Quantum Eye is Sam Eaton's entertaining and fascinating exploration of mentalism, magic, perception and deception, where extraordinary ability and gentle humor blend with the audience to make for a different performance every time. Join Sam on a journey past the limits of possibility in a show you will never forget.
More Information: http://www.thequantumeye.com
In Peace & War: 3 TEENS KILL 4 and THE WHITE WOLF: A Shadow-Play by Andrew Benincasa
Oct 29 8 PM - 10 PM
$20.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Post-punk EV/LES legends 3 Teens Kill 4 (whose lineup also included the late artist David Wojnarowicz) present a multi-media exploration into their music including film and video, animation, live performance by the band (multi-instrumentalists Brian Butterick, Julie Hair, Jesse Hultberg, Doug Bressler and drummer/percussionist Bill Gerstel) with special guests including choreography by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Yvonne Meier, with Ben van Buren and Emily Wexler, also featuring Eliza Upton-Green, additional choreography by Martha Tormay; Joe Jagos, Animation by Sarah Cruickshank, an appearance by Antony (of Antony & the Johnsons) and others. PLUS-- THE WHITE WOLF: A 15 Minute Shadow-Play by Andrew Benincasa & Boat-Bird Theater. WHITE WOLF is a folkloric tale about a city girl with secret passions and deep, dark desires. BOAT-BIRD THEATER has been performing shadow puppet shows around New York City for several years. Their tales are drawn from both ancient and modern sources. From myths, from the news, and from the possibly unethical gossip of your therapists.
Raquel Almazan's PORNING THE PLANET
Oct 30 10:30 PM - Midnight
$10.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
A video installation performance art piece, directed by PENNY ARCADE... An excerpt of a work in progress by writer/performer Raquel Almazan, Based on the life of adult star Brittany Andrews... Raquel Almazan – Writer/Performer... Penny Arcade - Director... Vangeline - Choreographer...Sandra Powers – Multi-media...Sindy Butz-Costume/ Installation... Brittany Andrews – Muse /Consultant
VANGELINE THEATER: DANSE MACABRE
Oct 30 8 PM - 10 PM
$10.00
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
Haunting, breathtaking, exquisite, deeply human, Butoh dancer Vangeline, soon to be seen in the feature film THE STARE with James Franco and Winona Ryder, curates a dark enchanted evening of Dance and Butoh to transport you all the way to Halloween's doorstep... Featuring critically acclaimed Butoh with Vangeline and the Vangeline Theater, Butoh Artist Bob Webb, New York Innovative Award Nominee Rachel Klein Theatre, the divine Arts By Davey, the unforgettable contortionist Jonathan Nosan, and the magic of French choreographer Nina Buisson of Nina Buisson Contemporary Moves... Costumed makers, models and poseurs welcome. PATRONS ARE INVITED TO REMAIN FOR RAQUEL ALMAZON'S PORNING THE PLANET.
More Information: http://www.vangeline.com
THE JACKIE FACTORY + EDITRIX ABBY Present GHOSTLIGHT: The Haunted East Village
Oct 31 9 PM - Midnight
$10 TILL OCTOBER 24, $15 AFTER + AT DOOR IF AVAILABLE
Theatre 80 St Marks, 80 St Marks Place 212-388-0388
AN ACTOR'S FUND BENEFIT FOR H.E.L.P. (THE HOWL EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT)...
The Halloween elite team THE JACKIE FACTORY (Jackie 60, Night of 1000 Stevies, Low Life @ Howl) reunite with
EDITRIX ABBY (Click + Drag, Burning Man) for GHOSTLIGHT, a gala Halloween follies benefitting the HOWL
EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT. That most haunted of East Village venues THEATRE 80 ST. MARKS will become a ghostly MUSIC HALL for the evening, with three sets (10 PM, 11 PM and midnight) starring a panoply of local legends and emerging talent... From master puppeteer BASIL TWIST (ARIAS WITH A TWIST, THE ADDAMS FAMILY) comes the evening's demon mascot, and the Haunted Spectacle onstage stars THE PIXIE HARLOTS, FLLOYD, AMBER RAY, RACHEL KLEIN THEATRE in THE TRAGEDY OF MARIA MACABRE Ballet, PRINCESS XTRAVAGANZA, VANGELINE THEATER, ST. EVE, AMMO and NATORAJ in PSYCHIC LAUNDRY, A New Year Samhain Ritual, HEATHER LITTEER and ZECCA ESQUIBEL, POISON EVE, aerialist RACHEL SALZMAN, THE DUELING BANKHEADS (DAVID ILKU and CLARK RENDER) and FUDGIE FROTTAGE as LEON TROTSKY. MC PAUL ALEXANDER of THE ONES presides with GHOSTLIGHT producers CHI CHI VALENTI and EDITRIX ABBY, and special guest MISSTRESS FORMIKA. Visuals will include vintage ROB ROTH creations and the evening's soundtrack is by ALTHEA LOVELESS (Long Black Veil @ Mother), JACKIE FACTORY maestro JOHNNY DYNELL (Jackie 60, Vandam) and East Village music guru LOAD REZENHAND... WHO IS ON WHEN? http://bit.ly/vTN8Tb A COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF EVENING'S PERFORMERS
Before and after each act, stop by the ABSINTHE BAR in the Theatre (a former 20s speakeasy) for a cocktail, or
use your show wristband for drink specials ($4-5) right across the street at LA PALAPA. A portion of bar sales
at LA PALAPA are being donated to HOWL! HELP. With your THEATRE 80 ticket, stay for one or more sets for the
same ticket price and return anytime through the night before 1:30 AM. ADVANCE TICKETS STRONGLY ADVISED.
More Information: http://www.mothernyc.com/ghostlight
